Scientists at the world’s largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light. That’s something that according to Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity – the famous E (equals) mc2 equation – just doesn’t happen.

“The feeling that most people have is this can’t be right, this can’t be real,” said James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, outside the Swiss city of Geneva.

Is that a synonym for “totally awesome?” Because I’m hard-pressed to say which one of these is better. My normal “Batman rule-of-thumb” is in full opposition to “anything fighting Nazis rule-of-thumb,” here…

[UPDATE, April 25, 2010]: They made the video private on YT, but you can watch it here.

Trust me, you’ll get it if you watch for long enough. You want to let it tell its story in its own time*.

My only problem with pointing out Top Gear 10: The Complete Season 10 is that I can’t quite believe that the other episodes can measure up to that clip, which is made up of crystalline awesome suspended in an energetic liquid-dude solution. Really, the only way that they could have improved it was to have a cameo by Iron Man.